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Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Support namespace label or annotation matching for shared costs

Within the Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I would like to be able to use a namespace label or annotation it outline shared costs. The current limit of 50 characters does not scale within a production grade environment and unfortinatley curre...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 3

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any rastreability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Add COIN reporting as a native capability

Cloudability has all of the data to enable COIN reporting natively in the dashboarding and reporting, yet the only way to achieve this today is to take the cost and rightsizing data out of Cloudability to an external tool to join and present it. C...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0

Add dimensions to Apptio BI to mirror info from Rightsizing

Add more dimensions regarding Rightsizing data source in Apptio BI. Currently we have situations where in Apptio BI reporting we have only current and recommended instance type but that is not what is being recommended to be changed: for example, ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Ability to specify component level PVC starting capacity for all supported stateful components (that require a PVC).

Multiple reasons, primarily though, improved install experience in an automated flow, and also in cases of public cloud deployments where configuring storage class IOPS and throughput settings for AIOps means enforcing a minimum volume capacity, e...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support the ability for an Operations Engineer / SRE to set VolumeAttributesClassName on PVCs and ensure the AIOps operators do not reset or override those settings.

This is important in Cloud storage environments, e.g. AWS, to be able to cost-effectively set and tune IOPS and throughput settings to meet AIOps component requirements and in a way that is supported by cloud provider storage solutions. Without th...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Commitment Support for Azure AI Foundry Provisioned Throughput

All available commitment types should be included in the list of purchased commitments My company is using "openai_provisioned_throughput" as a way of savings on AI usage. Currently those reservations are not listed in Cldy making it difficult for...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration

Default Dashboard for DB2 Monitoring

🎯 Goal : Enable database administrators and operations teams to quickly assess the health and performance of DB2 environments without additional setup or custom dashboards. 📊 Suggested Dashboard Structure: Overview Total DB2 Hosts monitored Total ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Not under consideration